“at this point”

You’ve paid attention to them at some point?

No rest for the wicked, and witchers be real wicked.

Population density is about on the level of Finland, I live in the south of Finland, and houses on the coast like that with several hundred meters of no-one else around aren’t that rare when you go even 5-10km fron the city centre.

So I assume they aren’t in Trondheim either.

I mean for about a quarter of a century they’ve been paying young adults to come and listen to propaganda in Israel.

It is the largest educational tourism organization in the world.

Trips also often include a Mega Event for all participants featuring speeches by dignitaries, including the Israeli Prime Minister, and musical performances by popular Israeli artists. Oh, my bad, not “propaganda”, “educational tourism”.

The tours also include a 5- to 10-day mifgash (Hebrew for ‘encounter’) with Israeli peers, usually soldiers serving in the Israel Defense Forces. The stated purpose for the mifgash is for the participants and the soldiers to get to know each other and to better understand each other’s worldview and Jewish identity.

Oh yes, I’m sure the IDF wants their soldiers to better understand “other worldviews”. /S

Birthright trips have been described as a form of propaganda.[48][49][50] Jewish Currents wrote, “Birthright has served as one of the most effective propaganda campaigns on behalf of the Israeli government and its occupation of the Palestinian territories.”[51] The organization has been scrutinized for the large proportion of its funding coming from major Trump and Netanyahu backer Adelson.[31]

In 2006, Salon.com alleged that Birthright Israel screened out applicants for political reasons.[52]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthright_Israel

Well at least there’s a tiny hint of semblance of balance on Wikipedia.

In retrospect, the standard of what seemed ridiculous and over-the-top at the time was a bit higher.

Idiocracy isn’t even remotely funny nowadays, it’s genuinely just very anxiety inducing now. And it’s honestly too fucking positive. A government actually trying to fix issues? Yeah, right.

Wow.

Props for taking me up on that. Seriously. More people need to have this level of responsibility.

In this metaphor, the homeless person is the outside cat, and cats are little murder machines.

Whereas inside cats get lazy enough that they can barely catch a fake mouse on a string.

"AI is not a toy. It is a weapon,” said CEO Alex Karp. “It will be used to kill people.”

If it aims as well as Gemini retrieves facts, I’m not really worried tbh.

“just complies”

I mean… I get what you mean but also, isn’t that what they used as a defense in Nürnberg?

I think a person who’ve had proper food is gonna win against a homeless person.

No, what you’re saying is “I believe a guy who’s been eating twinkies on his couch with no stress whatsoever would, in a fight, beat a guy who’s been fighting the elements and hunting for a living”.

I think many would fight even in the face of certain death.

I think you’re wildly underestimating the power of apathy and conformism.

I hope you’re right, but I don’t believe you are.

No but having one plate, one reusable box, one fork, one knife and one wine glass to wash is a lot less than all the things I use for cooking.

Knives, spoons, blender, pans, pots, containers, and most annoyingly, the cutting board. Because you want to take care of that nice wooden cuttingboard and make sure it’s clean and dry.

I live in Finland, I’d be alright.

So the first thing I’d do is have a deep sigh of relief, probably.

Well there’s religious nuts who oppose damn near everything, so I’m not surprised.

I’m just pointing out that they’re not traditionally against fertility treatments, although as some are anti-science (which is traditional for religious people), they are also coincidentally anti-IVF etc.

But like, their main point isn’t being against increasing fertility, it’s being against “unnatural science” or smth.

I wonder if there’s like even a single gen-Z or younger who does NOT hear the words “land of the free” as being the most sarcastic hypocritical bullshit this world ever saw.

Keep trying to grasp it and just go back in the same physical space you were I when you came up with it.

That also often happens to me, and doorways are kinda literally mind-wipers. So you’re in the bathroom, balling that thought for a while, deciding to go and write it down, step out of the bathroom…

This is because our brains model reality based on physical locations. So a new room is a “new scene” and your brain starts a new chapter.

It doesn’t even need to be an actual room. A door frame is sufficient. They tried this with a memory test where there’s two tables, you have to remember what’s on one and then arrange the other to match. For some they put a door frame between the tables, for some they didn’t. There’s a very clear effect.

Monolingual people should be reminded that machine translation is still for rather basic conversation.

Until they manage to autogenerate even correct English subs on YouTube on English speaking videos, theres really not much trust I will have in it.

So yeah, cool function, definitely helpful, but machine translation isn’t dependable if you need to accurate with your language.

I have a few problems with this episode, but also it’s one of my favourites, because it’s trying to actually process the problems tech like that would have, languages is sometimes incredibly contextual.

For one AI is shit with idioms.

For things like the UN, you just must have an actual person — who’s proficient at a native-level — translating.

Society doesn’t only improve.

There’s advances and setbacks.

As a Finn I’m very worried about this complacency about authoritarianism. We Finns don’t have “In God We Trust” on our money, no, but it might as well say “In Bureaucracy We Trust”.

I genuinely respect those first amendment auditors. Like a third I see are prolly a bit too douchey, but that’s their right.

What’s the quote again?

Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.

— G. Michael Hopf, Those Who Remain (The New World #7)

Username checks out. Guy knows his space produce.